The Island of Nose
Author : Jan Marinus Verburg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 32,96 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780416862102
Author : Jan Marinus Verburg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 32,96 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780416862102
Author : Jan Marinus Verburg
Publisher : London ; Toronto : Methuen
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780458929603
Author : Malachy Doyle
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Dogs
ISBN : 9781472378972
A dog follows his nose on an amazing journey, but can he find his way home?
Author : Frieda Wishinsky
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2004-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551437678
What kid hasn't been ordered by their mother to invite someone to their birthday party, the dilemma that the book's protagonist faces. Of course Kate's protest of, "I can't invite Leo ... He shoots spitballs into my hair at recess" is brushed aside by her parents. But, worse comes when rumours fly through the school about Kate's pirate-themed party. Kate is worried that no one will want to come, and she is almost relieved when bossy Violet (who her mother also insisted that Kate invite) shows up. Her relief is short-lived, but you'll have to read the book to find out how the party turns out
Author : Al Perkins
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 2003-06-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375824936
"I see a nose on every face. I see noses every place!” Noses come in all shapes, colors, and sizes and are handy to have for sniffling, smelling, and . . . playing horns? This simple, sometimes silly story offers little ones a first ode to the nose and all that it does.
Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0231549067
Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol’s peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By turns—or at once—funny, terrifying, and profound, the tales collected in The Nose and Other Stories are among the greatest achievements of world literature. These stories showcase Gogol’s vivid, haunting imagination: an encounter with evil in a darkened church, a downtrodden clerk who dreams only of a new overcoat, a nose that falls off a face and reappears around town on its own, outranking its former owner. Written between 1831 and 1842, they span the colorful setting of rural Ukraine to the unforgiving urban landscape of St. Petersburg to the ancient labyrinth of Rome. Yet they share Gogol’s characteristic obsessions—city crowds, bureaucratic hierarchy and irrationality, the devil in disguise—and a constant undercurrent of the absurd. Susanne Fusso’s translations pay careful attention to the strangeness and wonder of Gogol's style, preserving the inimitable humor and oddity of his language. The Nose and Other Stories reveals why Russian writers from Dostoevsky to Nabokov have returned to Gogol as the cornerstone of their unparalleled literary tradition.
Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780236964
In 2012 writer John Sutherland permanently lost his sense of smell. At about the same time, he embarked on a rereading of George Orwell and—still coping with his recent disability—noticed something peculiar: Orwell was positively obsessed with smell. In this original, irreverent biography, Sutherland offers a fresh account of Orwell’s life and works, one that sniffs out a unique, scented trail that wends from Burmese Days through Nineteen Eighty-Four and on to The Road to Wigan Pier. Sutherland airs out the odors, fetors, stenches, and reeks trapped in the pages of Orwell’s books. From Winston Smith’s apartment in Nineteen Eighty-Four, which “smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats,” to the tantalizing aromas of concubine Ma Hla May’s hair in Burmese Days, with its “mingled scent of sandalwood, garlic, coconut oil, and jasmine,” Sutherland explores the scent narratives that abound in Orwell’s literary world. Along the way, he elucidates questions that have remained unanswered in previous biographies, addressing gaps that have kept the writer elusively from us. In doing so, Sutherland offers an entertaining but enriching look at one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and, moreover, an entirely new and sensuous way to approach literature: nose first.
Author : Rebecca Rupp
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763660000
"Rebecca Rupp's magical tale . . . radiates a glow as golden as the dragon's scales." – Boston Globe Hannah, Zachary, and Sarah Emily are spending the summer at their great-aunt Mehitabel's house on faraway Lonely Island. There, in a cave hidden high above the ocean, they discover a fabulous creature: a glittering three-headed golden dragon with a kind heart, an unpredictable temper, and a memory that spans 20,000 years. Transported by the magic of the dragon's stories, the children meet Mei-lan, a young girl in ancient China; nineteenth-century cabin boy Jamie Pritchett; and, in more recent times, Hitty and her brother, Will, who survive a frightening plane crash on a desert island. In this fluidly written novel, Rebecca Rupp explores what three children from the present learn from the past - and from an unlikely but wise and generous friend.
Author : Mick Inkpen
Publisher : Hodder/Headline Audiobooks
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 2004-08
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781840329889
Something has happened on Blue Nose Island which has never happened before The sun hasn't come up and the moon has become stuck at the top of Blue Nose Volcano. Someone is going to have to do something--and so Ploo, the blue nose dog, begins an adventure to the Junglewood, where lives the Terrible Gnobbler. Will Ploo save the sun, or sink in the bottomless lagoon?
Author : Danièle Léger
Publisher :
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN : 9780995334502